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Research and Conservation of Male Court Dress in Japan and the UKâ€¯, Historic Royal Palaces â€•The Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection
(2025)
Storey, Matthew
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Tudor Textiles
(2021-08-24)
Lynn, Eleri
At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were more highly esteemed than paintings and other forms of decorative art. In 16th-century Europe, fine textiles were so costly that they were out of reach for average citizens, and even for many nobles. This spectacularly illustrated paperback edition tells the story of textiles during the long Tudor century, from the ascendance of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I in 1603. It places elaborate tapestries, imported carpets and lavish embroidery within the context of religious and political upheavals of the Tudor court, as well as the expanding world of global trade. Special attention is paid to the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a magnificent two-week festival held in 1520. Even half a millennium later, such extraordinary works remain Tudor society’s strongest projection of wealth, taste, and ultimately power.
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Tudor Fashion: Dress at Court, 1485-1603
(2021-09-14)
Lynn, Eleri
The Tudors are some of the best-known figures in history. They continue, even today, to spark our curiosity and imagination. Their enduring popularity is no doubt partly due to the iconic portraits in which they are depicted, in farthingales and ruffs, furs and jewels, codpieces and cloaks, and vast expanses of velvet and silk. Far from being mere decoration, fashion was pivotal in the communication of status and power. This paperback edition of Tudor Fashion presents insights into the fashions of the Tudor dynasty. Histories of Kings and Queens complement stories of unsung dressmakers, laundresses, and officials charged with maintaining and transporting the immense Tudor wardrobes from palace to palace. Evidence from rare surviving garments and textiles, original documents, fine and decorative art, and archaeological findings enhance our understanding of the Tudors and their courts. Handsomely illustrated, this sumptuous book contextualizes Tudor dress and fills in gaps in our knowledge of the period and its fascinating historical figures.
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The Conservation of a Japanese Court Suit at Historic Royal Palaces
(2025)
Motaung, Kaori
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Fashioning the Tudor court: identifying the primacy of elite dress and textiles as a signifier of status, magnificence, and power at the Tudor royal court, 1485-1603
(2025-04-28)
Lynn, Eleri
This introductory section – ‘Fashioning the Tudor court: Identifying the primacy of elite dress and textiles as a signifier of status, magnificence, and power at the Tudor royal court, 1485-1603’ – is submitted for the degree of PhD by Prior Publication. It accompanies and presents four publications and demonstrates their contributions to knowledge and their coherence as a unified body of work. The submitted work consists of two monographs, namely Tudor Fashion (2017) and Tudor Textiles (2020), an article in a peer-reviewed journal entitled ‘The Bacton Altar Cloth: Elizabeth I’s ‘long-lost skirt’?’ (2018), and a chapter in an edited book entitled ‘Canopied with Flowers: Adorning Court Spaces with Floral Tapestries and Hangings’ (2024). This introductory section situates the submitted work within existing literature and methodology, particularly the interdisciplinary, material culture approach of my practice as a museum curator. It further illustrates my own method and practice, which itself provides a unifying element to the submitted work. Within the submitted work, I present the case that elite textiles and dress were a primary communicator of status, magnificence, and power at the Tudor court from 1485 to 1603. Until recently, the role of textiles and dress as an indicator of Tudor material and visual culture was relatively neglected, except for important work that was nonetheless siloed by material, technique, or reign. My research across the breadth of the long Tudor century allows for a comparative investigation that contributes new knowledge to the fields of Tudor history and dress/textiles history. The major foci of the submitted work are the changing symbolism and meaning of elite textiles and dress across the Tudor period and their utilisation in the communication of royal power and magnificence. The submitted work also examines the materials, production, trade, dissemination, and administration of textiles and dress that supported and facilitated their pre-eminence within Tudor society. Through an examination of these themes within the context of existing scholarship and alongside my own research and curatorial practice, this introductory section will demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge.
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